Hello.

I received the following report from the Debian bug system.
Thanks.

----- Forwarded message from Werner Frey <[email protected]> -----

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:27:49 +0200
From: Werner Frey <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: Bug#1118586: diffutils: diff --to-file=directory no longer works as 
expected

Package: diffutils
Version: 1:3.12-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

since diffutils v3.12 the option "--to-file" no longer works as expected
if its argument is a directory.

diff --to-file=directory file1 file2 file3

should compare file1, file2, and file3 to directory/file1, directory/file2,
and directory/file3, respectively.
But it only compares file1 to directory/file1 and reports for the
remaining comparisons:

diff: directory: No such file or directory

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